Wednesday, February 8, 2017

8 February 2017

“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel 33:6]

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” [Ephesians 6:12]

A 29 January 2017 The Livingston Parish News article titled “Milton Promoted to Colonel and Command Chaplain of U.S. Military Intelligence” reports that Dr. Michael A. Milton, who serves as President of the D. James Kennedy Institute, the James H. Ragsdale Chair of Missions and Evangelism at Erskine Theological Seminary, and is the former Chancellor of Reformed Theological Seminary, was selected for promotion to full colonel in the U.S. Army, confirmed by the U.S. Senate in September 2016, and became Command Chaplain of U.S. Military Intelligence.

The Moderator for the 2017 General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) is to be the Rev. Robert McCurley, minister of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) congregation in Greenville, South Carolina, USA.

Mr McCurley (44) was born on a US Army base in the Reformation city of Augsburg, Germany, where his father was stationed for a few years as a linguist in army intelligence.

His father subsequently became a minister and Rob grew up as a son of the manse. Conversion at age seventeen brought great changes and eventually led to a call to the ministry.

He studied at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, South Carolina, USA, gaining a M.Div. and was ordained in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. His first charge was the OPC congregation in Bristol on the Tennessee/Virginia border.

He entered the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) in 2002 and served in Smiths Falls, Ontario (Canada) from 2002-2005. He later moved to the new preaching station in Greenville, South Carolina and became its minister when a year later the preaching station gained the status of a recognised congregation.

Rob has been married to Jeannette for twenty-one years. They have five children: Calvin (20), Genna (18), Alexander (16), Thomas (14) and Sammy (8). Calvin is studying electrical engineering at university. The other four are home-schooled.

He is a widely-travelled visiting preacher, having received invitations to preach in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Russia and various places throughout the US.

He is currently completing a ThM degree in the field of 17th century Reformed Scholasticism.